Langenesis

Pama-Nyungan family

Kaurna

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Kaurna (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Pama-Nyungan language. Lineage: Proto-Pama-Nyungan → Kaurna.

See Kaurna on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
zku
Glottocode
kaur1267

Language of the Adelaide Plains. Its last native speaker died in 1929; revived since the 1990s from 19th-century missionary records. Start date is nominal; intermediate subgroups are not tracked.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Pama-Nyunganc. 4,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Kaurnac. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Pama-Nyungan.

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